After Capitalism 15 - Economic inequality

[2Baiforev]

Capititalism is bullshit. I mean basically it's just smoke and mirrors. Some people get together and say I own this and I have money, and they give people this money and people let them buy goods. They say the money is worth this and you can buy goods. The truth is that these people take resources from the earth and make products and sell to people. If people stop buying than unless they have gold, silver they would be poor. People buy food they could grow, buy clothes they could make,

[DaveDoggOwns]

This is dishonest. Just because the gap between the rich and the poor is growing doesn't mean the poor are getting poorer. The standard average wage has been increasing steadily for the past 300 years. I honestly don't care if there is a gap, all I care about is that my wage increases...planning the economy is not going to cause the average wage to increase.

[grammaticus00]

But if you think of such things as inflation etc. you may find out that your real wage is in fact falling, and falling steadily, as the cost of living is also growing, maybe a bit faster than your wage is.